Airfix new-tool 1/72 Sea Harrier in 1944 FAA markings and camouflage.

[CSMO]

This was a gift from a friend. I decided to do it in WW2 Royal Navy colors for the hell of it. OOB with sparesbox decals and brush-painted Humbrol and White Ensign paints. I left of all of the external stores to show off the airframe.

Adios, Larry.

[PR19_Kit]

That looks VERY good in that scheme. 

[Thorvic]

I like that 

[sandiego89]

Well done, turned out great!  

But without the inboard pylon the WE-177 option would have been removed- surely you would want a WE-177 option for the 1944 North Atlantic U-boat threat?  



(P.S. I know the scheme is just for fun, just had to clarify as sarcasm plays poorly on the internet) Nice job!    

[PR19_Kit]

But without the inboard pylon the WE-177 option would have been removed- surely you would want a WE-177 option for the 1944 North Atlantic U-boat threat?  

I'm imagining the effect of a well aimed -177 on a U-Boat. Would there be anything left?

[Librarian]

  Sea harrier. Love the FAA colours, almost used them myself recently. There's a new 1/48 kit out but wrong variant, I prefer the first generation.

[sandiego89]

There's a new 1/48 kit out but wrong variant, I prefer the first generation.

Me too, nose looks a lot better, and the Falklands service really makes the FRS1 "the" mark of the aircraft for many.  Too bad I have several of the old tool in the stash, this new pop looks very nice.  Too bad so few early versions exist as most crashed or were converted.  Still like looking at the Indian ones, but they don't seem to get much press, or many flight hours.  The one at the FAA museum is actually a FRS1 nose section on a GR3 airframe (which basically is what a SHAR is anyway- from the intakes back anyway)   

[pyro-manic]

That, CSMO, is what is technically classed as "sexy as hell"! What a great-looking result.

Got me thinking about all-over gloss blue, and Suez-era schemes now...

[Captain Canada]

Nice one ! Looks great in those colours.

[lancer]

That as they say is the mutt's nuts!!!! One of the best looking Shars I've seen for a long time...

[Captain Canada]

I had to come back and look again..... I'm thinking of how it would look all tatted up....dull finish, paint chips everywhere, as if it spent months at sea.

[CSMO]

I like my models the same way I like my Scots and Irish whisky. NEAT!

Adios., Larry.

[ChernayaAkula]

That looks soooo very "right"! 

[zenrat]

Nice one.

[Tophe]

Dear CSMO, I tell you a (top secret) information: while you present "the Sea Harrier in 1944 markings" as a hilarious fantasy joke, this was the very truth in those years (first flight of the Sea Harrier in 1943, with the famous British leadership in jet engines)... No? Am I dreaming?